Formerly known as: Africa Recovery (1996-2004).
Current electronic monthly issue in full; in English or French. There is a link to an archive of some previous issues, but each back issue is only composed of a few excerpts and the table of contents.
--See also: "Africa Renewal" website

Africa review of books. – Dakar, Senegal: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), 2004-

A multidisciplinary journal co-sponsored with the Forum for Social Studies in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Centre National de Recherche Scientifique et Technique en Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle (CRASC), based in Oran, Algeria.

Formerly "African-American Archaeology Newsletter" (1994-2000): This site offers the current quarterly issue and the complete indexed archive of back issues. The newsletter includes scholarly articles on excavations and historical research, new book lists, event announcements, and lists of recently completed American doctoral dissertations on African and African diaspora archaeology.

"...publishes peer-reviewed contributions dealing with human rights related topics of relevance to Africa, Africans and scholars of Africa. The Journal appears twice a year, in March and October."
See also: Centre for Human Rights.

Issued 3-4 times per year: "African Voices provides a forum for dialogue on democratization in Africa; news and analysis of USAID and its collaborators' activities in civil society; profiles of African NGOs working in civil society; internet resources; publications; and conference highlights."

The electronic version of a print journal about contemporary African writing in the English language and writers in Africa and the diaspora, with interviews, short fiction, essays, poetry, reviews, news about forthcoming publications, awards, and events, and useful web links. The archives contain back issues since no. 1 (June/August 2007).

Africana Libraries Newsletter – Bloomington, Indiana : Published for the Africana Librarians' Council by Indiana University Libraries ; East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Libraries, 1997-

"Africana Libraries Newsletter (ALN) is published 2-3 times per year by Indiana University Libraries. It began as a bimonthly at Boston University in 1975 and was continued at Urbana, IL, and then at East Lansing, Michigan, prior to Bloomington, IN. ALN is produced to support the work of the Africana Librarians Council (ALC) of the African Studies Association. It carries reports on meetings of ALC, CAMP (Cooperative Africana Microform Project) and other relevant groups plus other items of interest to Africana librarians and those concerned about information resources about or in Africa."

Current bi-monthly and recent English language issues only at this mirror site of the official home page in Maputo. There is also an unofficial site produced by AIM Communications Service (via GeoCities) which has a more complete archive of back issues.

AMUCHMA newsletter. – Buffalo, New York: African Mathematical Union Commission on the History of Mathematics, 1987-

Current issue and back issues archive. "The Angola Peace Monitor is produced every month by ACTSA - Action for Southern Africa, the successor organisation to the British Anti-Apartheid Movement. It is produced as our contribution towards the work of the Angola Emergency Campaign, which seeks to highlight the need for international action in support of peace and democracy in Angola."

Formerly ARISA: Annual review of Islam in South Africa (1998-2005). The archive collection of this open access UCT journal, along with information about a subscription-based publication: Journal of Islamic Studies.

A weekly English language, online newspaper covering local Tanzanian and East African regional events and concerns. The current issue is available, as well as an archive of back issues since January 2002.

This site offers the electronic version of an "independent" print newspaper launched in 2003.Warning: The archive of back issues is searchable....but the publication dates of articles are not indicated.

A weekly e-newsletter. Balancing Act seeks to be the primary source for information on the telecoms, Internet and audio-visual media industries in Africa. The website/newsletter includes links to free (and fee-based) reports on African Internet Connectivity issues in individual countries and regional trends.
The site also provides access to the archive of back issues only since 2007.

The online archive of the most current and back issues since 1995. "ACAS is an organization of scholars and students engaged in critical research and analysis of Africa and U.S. government policy; developing communication and action networks; and mobilizing concerned communities on critical, current issues related to Africa."

The electronic version of the monthly newspaper, plus business information center for Cape Town and Cape Province, and a searchable business directory. The archives contains issues from the last three months and a larger collection is accessible via a search index.

CAJ is published bi-annually: encouraging holistic approaches ; publishing articles that reflect African and Africanist perspectives regarding children and childhood ; including all academic disciplines in the discussion ; furthering the professional interests of Africanists by disseminating knowledge about children and childhood in Africa.

This publication is the electronic version of a quarterly magazine on music and popular culture in South Africa and global Africa. "CHIMURENGA magazine is an advertising-free revue of arts.culture.politics and the relations that these enjoy around Africa. It is another kicking initiative by the Pan African Market aka Kalakuta Republique."

Recent issues of the online version of the quarterly publication of the African Center for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD). 'The magazine examines conflict issues on the African continent in a thorough and yet accessible fashion. African writers are expressly prioritized ...'

"...seeks to return Africanist scholarship to the heart of theoretical innovation within each of its constituent disciplines. We invite directional papers that provoke critical debate, and take a fresh approach to key and emergent social, political and economic issues affecting Africa."

Crop prospects and food situation. -- Rome: Trade and Markets Division, Food and Agriculture Organization, under the Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS), 2006-

"...published four times a year and focuses on developments affecting the food situation of developing countries and the Low-Income Food-Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) in particular."

This is the electronic version of the daily newspaper --formerly a weekly magazine-- featuring current and recent news articles. Selected older news articles are also accessible without charge, but the full archive of back issues is available only with a subscription.

The current edition of the electronic version of this daily newspaper from Malawi. The site includes articles from the most recent Sunday Malawi news and a recent sample of the Sunday times. There are no other back issues available.

The electronic version of a weekly newspaper covering business news mostly for Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, sometimes for neighboring countries. Several weeks of reports are readily available on the web site; use "search" feature to find reports from back issues since October 2005.

"EJAB is a refereed online journal of bibliographies on any aspect of Africa, its peoples, their homes, cities, towns, districts, states, countries, regions, including social, economic sustainable development, creative literature, the arts, and the Diaspora."

The online version of the weekly business and industry news magazine, featuring current news stories and profiles only–access to archives requires a subscription. The website also offers subscription information and online business research services.

This journal was first published in 1990 by the Jimma Institute of Health Sciences. Since July 2007, it is published 3 times annually by Jimma University. The site includes the tables of contents only for issues from the 1990-1999 period -and- full text for 2000 to present.

This site offers the current issue and the small archive. "Feminist Africa provides a forum for progressive, cutting-edge gender research and feminist dialogue focused on the continent. By prioritising intellectual rigor, the journal seeks to challenge the technocratic fragmentation resulting from donor-driven and narrowly developmentalist work on gender in Africa."

FO is published six times a year by the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System. It 'provides a global perspective on the production, stocks and trade of cereals and other basic food commodities, through an analysis of trends and prospects'. It also 'contains analysis and statistical information on developments in the world cereal markets, export prices and ocean freight rates'. Current and back issues.

Published by the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System as a quarterly, this report 'provides an regional assessment of the current food supply situation in sub-Saharan Africa, highlights the major food emergencies in the region and draws attention to the countries where the need for donor assistance is most urgent'. Current and back issues.

F&S was issued until 2006 by the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System six times a year. "Readers are provided with country-by-country summaries of the most recent information on the production, trade, stocks and consumption of food commodities, as well as food aid requirements, pledges and actual deliveries, when appropriate." Current and back issues.

Launched in December 2004! "The journal will use the web to facilitate the exchange of ideas between Africa-based scholars and scholars outside the continent of Africa. GEFAME is a peer-reviewed journal. The passages section re-establishes a journal of the African humanities established at Northwestern University and provides a site for commentary..."

The newsletter of the Institute, whose parent body is The Christian Council of Sweden. The Institute "runs conflict transformation programmes in the Horn of Africa and Great Lakes regions in partnership with local civil society organisations and universities in Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and the DRC."
--See also: Horn of Africa Bulletin, 1994-1995 Archive -- via University of Pennsylvania, African Studies Center (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

An electronic journal on African migration and immigration --- past, contemporary, and future -- around the continent and from the continent to other lands; with institutional support from Brooklyn College, The City University of New York.

Daily and weekly reports on the humanitarian situation in Africa, with regional sections and individual country reports. The archive of country reports includes issues since 1996 or 1997. There is also a link to ReliefWeb, a news service for humanitarian crises around the world.

The archive of back issues (since March 2001). "JENdA documents and responds to debates on women's history and studies in African social, cultural, political, and economic systems. It creates a forum for African women scholars, analysts and activists to participate on an equal fooing with their contemporaries worldwide..." As of early 2010, a subscription became required to access more recent issues.

"[JDS]...strives to publish high quality peer-reviewed research articles in various areas of the Arts and Sciences that bear on the language, culture and society of the Dagaaba of West Africa [Burkina Faso & Ghana]."

Note: This is a Web site promoting the print journal; only selected articles from each issue are available online. "The Journal of African Travel-Writing is a semi-annual print journal presenting and analyzing accounts of past and contemporary African travel."

"JPAS is a transdisciplinary scholarly journal devoted to an Africological synthesis of African world community studies and research since 1987." This site offers the current online issue and back issues since 1987.

Current news headlines. Warning: many reports–identified as "premium content", and the back issues archive (1994 to present), are accessible to overseas readers only through a low-price monthly subscription.

See also the old site. The most recent issue and links to back issues and conferences (past and forthcoming) are available. "Malaria ... is the first French/English bilingual publication completely focused on malaria. The primary objective of this publication is to give African malariologists the opportunity to know each other, exchange views, find out who is doing what and to envisage the possibilities for south-south collaboration in research."

The online version of the Botswana newspaper, originally founded in 1992, with the masthead Mmegi since 1994 and published daily since 2003. The site includes an archive of selected articles since December 2003.

The electronic version of an English language daily from Rwanda; the archive may not be accessible at all times. "Started in 1995, this newspaper is a registered Rwandan private media outlet...In April 2006, it started producing a daily newspaper."

Online full-text articles and abstracts since 1995 are available at this site. "NJAS has appeared since 1992, two issues per year in the beginning, but since 2000 three numbers have appeared annually. The Web version, starting from 2004, appears four times per year."

The site offers the current issue of the electronic version of the Ugandan newspaper, appearing every Sunday and Wednesday, with an archive of selected articles, editorials, and opinions since May 2008.

Formerly Kabissa-Fahamu Newsletter: Current weekly issue and back issues since December 2000. "Pambazuka News is a free weekly electronic newsletter covering news, commentary and analysis, and a range of other resources on African human rights and sustainable development. Pambazuka News is produced by Fahamu. The newsletter includes links to news reports from various online news services and organizations, and a catalogue of back issues."

"...intends to act as a channel of expression for thinkers in Africa, and to stimulate philosophical discussion on problems that arise out of the radical transformations Africa and Africans are undergoing."

This site offers only excerpted texts from the old issues – in French or English – and color images from the Paris-based African arts and culture journal, essays, and information about subscriptions to the monthly journal in paper.

Issued 3-4 times per year: current online issue only is available, with some information about tables of contents for back issues. [Founded in 1990] "RjR is South Africa's only publication covering journalism-specific issues."

One can read the current issue and the TOCs of back issues without charge – with a subscription, read the back issues since June 1999. "Safundi is a peer-reviewed quarterly publication dedicated to comparing the histories, cultures, and modern experiences of the United States of America and the Republic of South Africa."

SWCS is issued by the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System every month throughout the growing season (June to October). The report 'describes weather conditions, pest infestations and crop prospects in the Sahel, a drought-prone zone'. Current and back issues.

"The aim of this bilingual journal is to revitalise an open and academic discourse on contemporary artistic positions and art projects related to Africa and its Diaspora...A further focal point is the art scene in the German-speaking countries, where this journal is the first of its kind and where the methodologies of curating contemporary African art need to be investigated."

Current monthly issue and back issues since January 2001. A popular news magazine about scientific research and development on the African continent, plus information about funding and job opportunities and links to organizations.

SD Abstracts was published quarterly by the Office of Sustainable Development in the Bureau for Africa (AFR/SD), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The documents are brief summaries of the results of analytic work performed by the bureau staff.

SD Developments was published quarterly by the Office of Sustainable Development in the Bureau for Africa (AFR/SD), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), by the Africa Bureau Information Center, operated by the Academy for Educational Development under contract to USAID.

Soul beat. – Braamfontein, South Africa: Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication, in partnership with SANGONeT; Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: The Communication Initiative, 2003-

The Soul Beat Africa website offers the current bi-weekly issue of the newsletter and the archive of all previous issues. "...for communicators, practitioners, media makers, academics, researchers and others who are using communication for change in Africa."

Published twice annually: long abstracts and tables of contents for the current issues and for many other issues since April 1993 are available online. Full text articles available only through paid subscription to the print edition.

'The full text –without photos or illustrations– of all articles published during the last eight years of the magazine - from July 1992 to October 2000. In addition, three indexes produced in 1996 — covering June 1985 to November 1995 - are available as a research tool.'

This site offers the table-of-contents for the most recent issue and full text of the back issues. "...to encourage debate in the area of policy, regulation, management and development of broadcasting, telecommunications and information technology in Southern Africa."

The newspaper was originally founded in 1949. Since 2006, it has been published as a daily. The website offers the electronic version of the current and recent news, plus an archive of selected past articles since January 2007.

This archive is compiled from e-mail messages by Dr. Ali Dinar, University of Pennsylvania. "Sudan Update is an international media review, published twice monthly, recording news and comment on Sudanese affairs from all quarters to promote dialogue and education."

The archive for the electronic versions of excerpts and tables of contents for this annual journal; plus an index to articles. "Sudanic Africa is an international academic journal devoted to the presentation and discussion of historical sources on the Sudanic belt, the area between the Sahara and the Bay of Niger, the Atlantic and the Indian Oceans. The journal typically presents such sources in the original language and in translation, with comments."

An Ethiopian-American online magazine which includes recent political and cultural news, as well as contributions from scholars and journalists on a variety of contemporary and historical topics, including Ethiopian-American and Ethiopian artists, musicians, religious, and political figures. Excerpts are also available from the archives.

"Tamaji is a collaborative, bilingual (English and French) webzine that strives to facilitate communication between black cultures throughout the globe and to enlighten the rest about the African diaspora's heritage by means of literary works, articles, videos, art, photography and discussions."

Last two issues and a link to archive. "Track Two was a quarterly publication ... to promote innovative and constructive approaches to community and political conflict, as an alternative to traditional adversarial tactics."

Umrabulo. – Marshalltown, South Africa: African National Congress, Department of Political Education and Training, 1996-

The electronic version of a quarterly publication of political discussion and debate from the ANC party of South Africa.

A daily and weekly news magazine: "to serve as the primary, professional news medium for Africans and Americans; promote and support establishing of pro-development structures and ideas; foster pro-democracy and free market networks inside the African continent and within African communities in the U.S., the Americas and across the world; argue through editorial opinion and reporting such common economic interests of Americans and Africans in investing and trade matters, export and import, public policy and current issues, cultural awareness, sports, and arts reviews."

Requires free registration to access: Current issue of the electronic version of this daily newspaper, which focuses on local Kwa-Zulu Natal events. Highlights from back issues are available in the archive.

"Zambia News Online is written by Zambian journalists from their point of view. It is assembled and edited in Copenhagen by Africa News Network, part of South AfricaContact , the former anti-apartheid movement in Denmark." This collection of bimonthly newsletters is assembled from e-mail messages by Dr. Ali Dinar at the University of Pennsylvania.

The online version of a newspaper on Zimbabwean affairs published twice weekly since 2011 and organized by Zimbabweans outside of the country since mid-March 2005. "We are a group of committed and professional Zimbabwean journalists and friends from around the world who have come together to start the first physical newspaper for Zimbabweans in exile. The paper will be edited by Wilf Mbanga, founder and first Chief Executive of Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe, the publishers of The Daily News (closed down in 2003 under the terms of the Zimbabwe Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act.)"